I think they outsourced a bunch of records to non-english speakers. At least you have an option to correct the transcription mistakes, so others will be able to find them.
On the other hand Familysearch is almost done (all by volunteers) and the quality seems to be better (for the ones released so far)
First one to the finish line is not always the winner.

They have him and his son spelled correctly, but the name of the family they are lodging with says "Adark" when it's really Clark, the last daughter's name is listed as Garah, should be Sarah.

Line 76 a little farther down the page lists the family name of Craman, should be Cramer and they have the first name "Crust" lol! frankly, that one is tough to figure out.. maybe Grant?
his wife should be Gina, not Livan

line 80 is Malie, should be Marie

If I went over the whole page, I bet there's more.

I wonder if they count on that? I always get a very nice thank you! when I submit mine.

and submitted the correction this morning. I'd found my grandfather, Samuel Kendall, by going through hundreds of images one by one when they first came out. I couldn't find him in the transcribed ones I searched today so went back and traced the location ... he was transcribed as Samuel Rendall. I agree about the quality of these transcriptions, so many mistakes in my tree that if I didn't know what to look for I'd never locate many of them. And they're mostly very easy names.

product is riddled with errors. Hardly worth the price.

It somehow offends the hell out of me that a federal document (the census) is behind a commercial wall.

because it was too expensive. They offer free access every time an index is finished and added, no doubt to attract subscribers when the free trial is over.

It irks me, too, that these indexes have been handed over to these huge companies. Here, in Canada, we weren't allowed to voluntarily transcribe certain years because they'd already been taken over by Family Search ... and then lo and behold wound up in the hands of Ancestry, despite the excellent quality of the transcriptions and double-proofing of every single entry of those we'd already completed ... which included many years and every individual recorded in Canada. It was very disappointing to be told we wouldn't have access to the latest available Canadian records to transcribe further - and now to have to pay to see them. So, I do take advantage of the freebies, but you're exactly right.

Ancestry is also Mormon -- that explains how things got into their hands.

I remember about 38 years ago when I first started research, going to the library and sitting for hours in front of a microfilm reader, reading every line of a census return. There were some books with indexes, but I found a lot more by just reading a county. I found siblings and other relatives living in the same county. The problem with the early indexes is the same problem now: the indexer mis-reading an entry, making it impossible to find by index. Now everything is on line and behind corporate walls. It is possible to use Ancestry at the library for no fee, but the library restricts users to one hour. Unless you are very specific in your search, one hour isn't much.